The Maritime Sikh Society, which Gursimran Kaur's family is a part of, shared in an update on GoFundMe on Friday, Oct. 25, that they had raised over $140,000 ($194,000 Canadian dollars) in funds to benefit her “bereaved family” — some of whom had been in India trying to fly to Canada for Kaur’s funeral.

Nineteen-year-old Canadian Walmart employee Gursimran Kaur was identified as the teen found dead in the walk-in oven of the Walmart bakery on Mumford Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 19, 2024.

A 19-year-old employee at a Walmart bakery in Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada was found dead in a walk-in oven last week. According to news reports, Halifax Regional Police confirmed that Gursimran Kaur’s body was discovered by her mother in the October 19 incident after she couldn’t reach her for over an hour.